CRN Networking News

Political pressure may have ultimately caused the erosion of reported deals between Huawei and two of the country's wireless leaders, but partners looking to add another competitive option to iPhone and Android devices can still access Huawei products via retail channels.

Cisco, Huawei, HPE Aruba, Arista Networks and Juniper Networks have all responded to the Spectre and Meltdown exploits by issuing security advisories that demonstrate a range of possible impacts and preventative actions.

In a security advisory issued Thursday night, Cisco says it is putting dozens of routers, switches and servers under the microscope to find out whether any of them may be affected by the Spectre or Meltdown exploits.

Alan Foy tells CRN that the company can't capitalize on rapidly growing markets in North America, Europe and Asia without a stable of strong partners committed to selling across its newly expanded portfolio and in combination with hot SaaS offerings.

Alan Foy, formerly CEO of Dublin, Ireland-based Blueface and now head of the combined company, says Star2Star's strong channel program will serve as a blueprint as StarBlue expands into new geographies and deeper into midmarket and enterprise accounts.

CenturyLink taps Dell EMC's former global senior vice president of marketing, Gaurav Chand, and telecom veteran Shaun Andrews to lead marketing and product management as the company digests its massive Level 3 Communications purchase.

Tom Gorey, WTG's new director of strategic alliances, is ready to help partners take advantage of upcoming partner program updates and grow their businesses with carriers as those telecom providers rely more heavily on partners in 2018.

Wasabi Technologies CEO and Carbonite Co-Founder David Friend discusses the possible dangers that face startups when broadband providers can slow or interfere with competitive services using their networks.

The departures of 22-year Cisco executives Chris Dedicoat and Rebecca Jacoby sent further signals to partners that CEO Chuck Robbins intends to completely remake the networking giant as a leader in the market for cloud-based solutions.

From multi-billion mergers and acquisitions, to competition heating up in the wireless arena, to the fate of Net Neutrality hanging in the balance, 2017 was a busy year in the telecom industry. Here are ten of the biggest headline-making news stories.

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With 100 days as Lexmark's new global channel chief behind him, Sammy Kinlaw is preparing to ramp up channel spending, roll out new incentives and getting partners ready for a massive overhaul of the company's printer portfolio.

Fourteen of the 24 publicly held channel companies on our watch list saw the price of their stock increase in the first quarter of 2018 while 10 recorded stock price declines. Take a look at who were the winners and who were the losers.

Ingram Micro executive vice president and Americas group president Paul Bay says rather than focus on technology and its delivery, Ingram Micro today is all about the business outcome the channel needs to deliver.